Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu
This study aims to find out entrepreneurial behavior dimensions that affect entrepreneurial intention amongst students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, (UMS) Kota Kinabalu. A survey was conducted among first year students who are compulsory to take US7222 (Fundamental of Entrepreneurship) in Univers...
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| description | This study aims to find out entrepreneurial behavior dimensions that affect
entrepreneurial intention amongst students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, (UMS) Kota
Kinabalu. A survey was conducted among first year students who are compulsory to
take US7222 (Fundamental of Entrepreneurship) in Universiti Malaysia Sabah . A total of
201 usable questionnaires were collected for this study. The finding revealed that a
significant positive relationship existing between entrepreneurial behavior dimensions
and entrepreneurial intention amongst first years students in Kota Kinabalu. The finding
confirms that entrepreneurial attitude and social norms have significant positive effect on
entrepreneurial intention amongst first year UMS students in Kota Kinabalu. Interestingly,
the finding discovers that attitude is the most important dimension as significant to
determine entrepreneurial intention. This study also finds that the parents ever been
employed has significant relationship between (attitude, social norms and self
efficacy)and entrepreneurial intention. It is suggested that the university management
need to pay more attentions and to emphasize on these significant underlying
entrepreneurial behavior dimensions (attitude and social norms) in order to enhance
entrepreneurial intention. |
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| spelling | ums.eprints-189122018-02-26T03:39:00Z https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18912/ Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu Fong, Yee Shin HB Economic theory. Demography This study aims to find out entrepreneurial behavior dimensions that affect entrepreneurial intention amongst students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, (UMS) Kota Kinabalu. A survey was conducted among first year students who are compulsory to take US7222 (Fundamental of Entrepreneurship) in Universiti Malaysia Sabah . A total of 201 usable questionnaires were collected for this study. The finding revealed that a significant positive relationship existing between entrepreneurial behavior dimensions and entrepreneurial intention amongst first years students in Kota Kinabalu. The finding confirms that entrepreneurial attitude and social norms have significant positive effect on entrepreneurial intention amongst first year UMS students in Kota Kinabalu. Interestingly, the finding discovers that attitude is the most important dimension as significant to determine entrepreneurial intention. This study also finds that the parents ever been employed has significant relationship between (attitude, social norms and self efficacy)and entrepreneurial intention. It is suggested that the university management need to pay more attentions and to emphasize on these significant underlying entrepreneurial behavior dimensions (attitude and social norms) in order to enhance entrepreneurial intention. 2008 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18912/1/Relationship%20betwen%20entrepreneurial.pdf Fong, Yee Shin (2008) Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sabah. |
| spellingShingle | HB Economic theory. Demography Fong, Yee Shin Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title | Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title_full | Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title_fullStr | Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title_full_unstemmed | Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title_short | Relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu |
| title_sort | relationship betwen entrepreneurial behavior dimension and entrepreneurial intention amongst first year students in universiti malaysia sabah kota kinabalu |
| topic | HB Economic theory. Demography |
| url | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/18912/1/Relationship%20betwen%20entrepreneurial.pdf |
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